The Old Pacific Capital. Robert Louis Stevenson's Story of Monterey.
by COLT PRESS. STEVENSON, Robert Louis
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About This Item
San Francisco: Colt Press, 1944. One of 500 copies. Printed in black, brown and red. 2 facsimiles of pictures by Edward Vischer. 8vo., original green cloth backed, patterned paper covered boards. Head and tail of spine a little rubbed, otherwise a good copy, without the wrappers. With the prospectus of all the other Colt Press books.||No. 1 of the California Classics series. The first separate printing of Stevenson’s classic description of Monterey from when he lived there in 1879. |
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- SOPHIE SCHNEIDEMAN RARE BOOKS (GB)
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- Title
- The Old Pacific Capital. Robert Louis Stevenson's Story of Monterey.
- Author
- COLT PRESS. STEVENSON, Robert Louis
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Colt Press
- Place of Publication
- San Francisco
- Date Published
- 1944
- Keywords
- Colt Press;Grabhorn;California;San Francisco;Monterey;Stevenson Book,Private Press
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